7 Takeaways From N.F.L. Week 7

The sun rises in the East and sets in the West. The Patriots find a way to win against young quarterbacks, and the Browns somehow end up in overtime. That’s just the way it works. Here’s what we learned in the N.F.L.’s Week 7.

• The Chiefs’ single-season passing touchdown record is as good as broken. Patrick Mahomes threw another four touchdown passes in Kansas City’s blowout win over Cincinnati on Sunday night, giving him 22 for the season. With four more he’ll match Alex Smith’s best season for Kansas City, and with eight more he would tie the franchise record of 30, which was set by Len Dawson in 1964. He has nine games to get there.

• Bill Belichick doesn’t care about almost. When asked about Chicago’s Mitchell Trubisky completing a 54-yard Hail Mary when he needed 55 for a potential tying score, the Patriots’ coach gave a vicious shrug and said, “It looked like we tackled him before he got in.”

• The longer extra-point distance comes for everyone eventually. Justin Tucker, Baltimore’s rock-solid place-kicker, had made 222 consecutive extra points when he went onto the field to try to tie his team’s game against New Orleans. The broadcast crew declared that he had never missed one, just as Tucker’s kick sailed wide right, handing a victory to the Saints. The kick was not blocked or hurried; Tucker simply missed it.

• Dirk Koetter has a lot of confidence in his kicker. The Tampa Bay coach sent Chandler Catanzaro out for a 59-yard field-goal attempt in overtime even though Catanzaro had already missed a 40-yard attempt, and even though the consequence of a miss would be Cleveland’s having a short field for an attempt to win the game. Naturally, Catanzaro connected for the game-winning kick, making Koetter look like a genius.

• Eric Reid still does not like Malcolm Jenkins. The politically minded defensive backs exchanged words after the coin toss, and whatever was said seemed to inspire Reid, who was aggressive — sometimes too aggressive — throughout the game against the Eagles in his best effort as a Panther.

• Adam Thielen will get his 100 yards. The Minnesota wide receiver, quickly moving up the lists of the greatest undrafted players in N.F.L. history, recorded more than 100 receiving yards in a seventh consecutive game. He tied Charley Henningan’s 1961 record for games of 100 yards or more to start a season and is one short of Calvin Johnson’s 2012 record for the most consecutive games of 100 or more yards at any point during the season.

• The Rams may be hoping it’s not 1985 all over again. Los Angeles got an easy win over lowly San Francisco, improving to 7-0 for the first time since 1985. Now the Rams just have to avoid finishing like that squad; Dieter Brock’s team stumbled to a 4-5 record the rest of the way and was demolished by Chicago in the N.F.C. championship game.